The call of a lifetime is well worth the wait. If you are a baseball player with big dreams, there is universal agreement about what said phone call would be. Tom Cosgrove waited seven years for that call. more

Manhattan men’s lacrosse secured a share of the 2023 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference regular season championship with a 6-2 win over Wagner in Staten Island on Saturday night in the regular season finale. more

The annual Riverdale 1-Mile Run/Walk will be held May 21 at the Riverdale Y at 5625 Arlington Ave. more

As part of Manhattan College’s committment to help the environment, the school launched its inaugural Laudato Si Day outside of Squeri Hall on April 21. It was  inspired by Pope Francis’s celebration of Earth Day on April 22. more

Another year, another Bronx high school student can have their artwork shown in the halls of the U.S. Capitol along with other winners nationwide and the district office of Rep. Adriano Espaillat for up to one year. more

The painted lines at Gaelic Park are made for a range of sports. Everything from soccer to Gaelic football and even softball in one corner. Behind one end sits a construction zone formerly occupied by a rundown bar. And almost on cue, the noise from the subway tracks rattles in the background at this urban play yard, whose only good hideout from the sun is a couple of rows in the middle of the bleachers, underneath the canopy. more

This past weekend nearly 100 athletes took part in New York’s Special Olympics chapter annual two-day basketball competition for the New York City region at Mount Saint Vincent College in North Riverdale. more

Ivan Lytovchenko remembers the look on the faces of his common folk. There were no emotions — only austere expressions and almost a sense of numbness to it all by now. more

St. Michael’s College senior utility man Ulysses Luciano, a Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy alumnus, was named the Northeast-10 Conference Weekly Honor Roll for the week ending Sunday, April 9 along with teammate John Luke Cianciolo Guilford/New Haven, Connecticut. more

A new 10-foot high mosaic mural made of about 2,000 tiles faces Riverdale Avenue from the campus of the College of Mount Saint Vincent. It is a collaboration of the Riverdale Main Streets Alliance, the Sisters of Charity and the college. Each tile is painted with a face, object, animal or other things that depict the Northeast in the fall.. more